The Weekender, Feb. 13-15: The Liza Minelli edition

Lotsa theater this week, including two from Triad Stage, ladyparts in Greensboro and a sequel in Winston-Salem. But for photography reasons we’re focusing on Cabaret at UNCG this weekend, where a young Liza Minelli fully emerged from under her mother’s shadow. But that was a pretty long time ago…

Come hear the music play as UNCG’s theater department premieres its staging of the classic anti-fascist musical, Cabaret. They’re kicking things off with a “pay what you can” preview on Thursday at 8 p.m. The show runs through Feb. 19. (GSO)

FRIDAY

Tiffany Chaney created Green Door Wheel Works‘ first art show of 2015 features, with pieces dubbed “whimsical” and “passionate” on the Facebook event page. Things get going at 5 p.m. (HP)

In a first for the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, the museum offers advanced-purchase admission for the opening of one of its exhibits: American Buffalo, George Catlin’s series of paintings of the American West, centralized around the king of the prairie, the bison. (W-S)

Written by Bruce Norris in 2010 as a mirror companion to A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park tells the story of the white family who sold the Youngers their house. Itenters its second weekend at the Stained Glass Playhouse with 8 p.m. showings on Friday and Saturday and a 3 p.m. matinee on Sunday afternoon.

Father and daughter Dean & Riley Driver bring the DooDad vibe to Common Grounds,Dusty’s coffee shop on the corner, where a little live-music scene is heating up. It starts early, 8 p.m., for the neighborhood crowd. (GSO)

Now, here’s a grab bag: Corporate Fandango, Greensboro’s manic ska miscreants, and Damn Frank, a Philadelphia-Greensboro punk-rock transplant, celebrate the release of their new CDs. Add Hotdog, the new project of Josh King and other House of Fools alumni. Then throw in the experimental hip-hop crew Dildo of God. Oh, and I think it’s someone’s birthday. Show starts at 9 p.m. at the Crown.

Kick it truly old school this Valentine’s Day in Old Salem where period actors discuss love in the 19th Century, with crafts for young and old alike. (W-S)

The High Point Theatre does dinner and a show for V-day, with food from Gianno’s and entertainment from the Grand Ole Opry stylings of Mandy Barnett. See for details. (HP)

The ladies of Daddy Issues demonstrate why they’ve been so busy tonight at Local Honey, a downtown hair salon. Their new EP Double Loser drops amid performances from T0W3RS, Free Clinic and Totally Slow. This should be the best hair-salon rock show of the weekend. (GSO)

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